28/10/16

Allison Crutchfield (P.S. Eliot, Swearin’) has announced her debut solo album. It’s called Tourist in This Town, and it’s out via Merge Records. She has also shared a music video for the album’s first offering, “Dean’s Room.” Directed by Lara Jean Gallagher, the video (watch below) shows scenes of Crutchfield dancing around a home alongside the dancer Marlee Grace. In the video Gallagher “wanted to counter the upbeat tempo of the song with moments that felt like taffy,” she...

20/10/16

Austra, the recording project led by Canadian vocalist and producer Katie Stelmanis, is pleased to announce Future Politics, the third full length in their discography.

Inspired by her time living in two cities – Montreal and Mexico City – and propelled by economic and philosophical texts she was reading throughout the album’s creation, Stelmanis was driven to face the world’s ailments with positivity, purpose, and engagement, rather than detachment or despair. Inspiration also came from European club...

Parquet Courts are an American punk rock band based in Brooklyn, NYC. Formed in late 2010, Parquet Courts released their debut album 'American Specialties' in 2011 then 'Light Up Gold' in 2013 (on What's Your Rupture? Records) which received acclaim in both the DIY underground and mainstream rock press. Rough Trade will be releasing their highly anticipated third LP 'Sunbathing Animal' outside of the USA on June 2nd 2014 (What's Your Rupture in USA) and follows the release of the title track on Record Store Day.

An album of the same name will then follow on June 2. The full tracklisting...